We had some problems with comment spam recently so we wanted to see more comments at the same time…
We could have just made a new plugin, or found one already written, and used it in a new index, but then we’d have to rebuild the thing every time we needed to find spam. So, I went into our MT installation and changed it directly to show the last 25 comments instead of the last 5.- MT_HOME/tmpl/cms (for example /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mt/tmpl/cms )
is where the templates are. - The one which we want is menu.tmpl which defines COMMENT_LOOP.
- They use a templating language defined by Template.pm which lives at
MT_HOME/extlib/HTML (for example /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mt/extlib/HTML ). This module is very well commented, typeperldoc Template
to read it.
- now we want to change the number of times the COMMENT_LOOP iterates-
kind of a pain in the ass, since it iterates over an array, and so it will be the length of the array and not defined in our template at all! - the library that builds this is called
MT_HOME/lib/MT/App/CMS.pm
( for example
/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mt/lib/MT/App/CMS.pm ). - the array in question is called @c_data and somewhat disturbingly has a hard coded length:
$iter = MT::Comment->load_iter({ blog_id => $blog_id }, { 'sort' => 'created_on', direction => 'descend', limit => 5 }); my @c_data;See that 5? that’s our puppy!